Dionysus

by Dead Can Dance

Dionysus cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 2 November 2018
  • Label: PIAS
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 36:10
  • Community rating: 3.55/5 from 12 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard returned with a highly ritualistic, two-act conceptual project exploring the myth and enduring spirit of the Greek god of wine and ecstasy. Incorporating an immense array of traditional Mediterranean and Middle Eastern folk instruments alongside field recordings, the album completely eschews typical song structures for flowing, tribal-ambient movements. It serves as a hypnotic, heavily researched celebration of ancient European paganism.

Genres

Descriptors: atmospheric, ritualistic, rhythmic, nature, conceptual, mythology, choral, orchestral, nonlexical-vocables, traditional, percussive, folk

Tracklist

  1. ACT I: Sea Borne (6:45)
  2. ACT I: Liberator of Minds (5:19)
  3. ACT I: Dance of the Bacchantes (4:36)
  4. ACT II: The Mountain (5:34)
  5. ACT II: The Invocation (4:50)
  6. ACT II: The Forest (5:09)
  7. ACT II: Psychopomp (3:52)

Credits

  • Dead Can Dance - primary artist
  • DLT - layout
  • Key Music Management Ltd. - management
  • Geoff Pesche - mastered by
  • Brendan Perry - photography by [cover photography by], design

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